Academia and industry share a complex, multifaceted, and symbiotic relationship. Analysing the knowledge flow between them, understanding which directions have the biggest potential, and discovering the best strategies to harmonise their efforts is a critical task for several stakeholders. While research publications and patents are an ideal media to analyse this space, current datasets of scholarly data can not be used for such a purpose since they lack a high-quality characterization of the relevant research topics and industrial sectors.
We introduce the Academia/Industry DynAmics (AIDA) Knowledge Graph, which describes 21M publications and 8M patents according to the research topics drawn from the Computer Science Ontology. 5.1M publications and 5.6M patents are further characterized according to the type of the author's affiliations (academy, industry, or collaborative) and 66 industrial sectors (e.g., automotive, financial, energy, electronics) organized in a two-level taxonomy.
AIDA was generated by an automatic pipeline that integrates data from Microsoft Academic Graph, Dimensions, DBpedia, the Computer Science Ontology, and the Global Research Identifier Database. It is publicly available under CC BY 4.0 and can be downloaded as a dump or queried via a triplestore.
The AIDA KG is aligned with the initiative of the Knowledge Graph Construction W3C Community Group for producing benchmarks, resources, and tools to support the semi-automatic generation of knowledge graphs from documents.
The AIDA data model is based on AIDA Schema and nine additional relationships from Schema.org, RDFS, FOAF and others.
The Industrial Sector Ontology (INDUSO) is a two-level taxonomy describing 66 industrial sectors.
INDUSO was created using a bottom-up method that took into consideration the large collection of publications and patents from MAG and Dimensions. Specifically, for each affiliation described in the documents with a GRID ID, we extracted from DBpedia the objects of the properties About:Purpose and About:Industry. We applied a bottom-up hierarchical clustering approach for merging similar sectors.
For instance, the industrial sector "Computing and IT" was derived from categories such as "Networking hardware", "Cloud Computing", and "IT service management".
Finally, we arranged the resulting sectors in a two-level taxonomy to have the first level sector including different second-level sectors. For example, the first level sector "energy" includes "nuclear power", "oil and gas industry", and "air conditioning".
Simone Angioni, Angelo Salatino, Francesco Osborne, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, and Enrico Motta. Leveraging Knowledge Graph Technologies to Assess Journals and Conferences at Springer Nature. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC 2022.
Simone Angioni, Angelo Salatino, Francesco Osborne, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, and Enrico Motta. The AIDA Dashboard: a Web Application for Assessing and Comparing Scientific Conferences. IEEE Access, 10 pp. 39471–39486.
Simone Angioni, Angelo Salatino, Francesco Osborne, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, and Enrico Motta. AIDA: a Knowledge Graph about Research Dynamics in Academia and Industry. Quantitative Science Studies 2022; 2 (4): 1356–1398.
Simone Angioni, Angelo Salatino, Francesco Osborne, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, and Enrico Motta. Integrating Knowledge Graphs for Analysing Academia and Industry Dynamics. Scientific Knowledge Graph Workshop at TPDL 2020.
Simone Angioni, Angelo Salatino, Francesco Osborne, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, and Enrico Motta. Integrating Knowledge Graphs for Comparing the Scientific Output of Academia and Industry. In ISWC 2019 Posters & Demonstrations and Industry Tracks @ The Semantic Web – ISWC 2019, 26-30 October 2019, Auckland, New Zeland, CEUR Workshop, 2019.
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari (Italy)
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari (Italy)
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
For information and questions please contact:
Francesco Osborne – francesco [dot] osborne [at] open [dot] ac [dot] uk
Angelo Salatino – angelo [dot] salatino [at] open [dot] ac [dot] uk